-"Hope, dangles on a string...like slow spinning redemption...spinning in and spinning out..."-
"Two weeks, huh?" He mumbled the words, voice coming out almost like an angry croak. Hiccup dropped his eyes, letting them run over the landscape of the viking's muscled chest and all the twisted scars marring it. It was like a sick testament to what the Thorston had been through in his life, a strange piece of art that only continued to grow with time, only continued to have more added to its wreck of a story. He put his weight on one hand, reaching out with the one Tuffnut still lightly had hold of. His fingers hesitated for a second, poised in the air above his exposed flesh before he finally licked his lips and dropped his hand to ghost fingertips along one of the thicker, jagged scars spanning the bredth of the blonde's chest. Tuffnut surpressed a shudder, but Hiccup felt it enough to smile.
"I'm going to come see you anyways." He lifted his eyes as he spoke, Tuffnut locking onto them with a patronizing frown.
"You're not going to keep doing stupid things, Hiccup. I told you already everything that happened between us was a mistake. You should be running from me at top speed, not running into me like a dunderhead." Tuffnut shifted, pulling himself up a bit on the pillows so that he could hold his head higher than Hiccup's own. Hiccup just kept smiling and teasing his fingers over the scars he was beginning to think of running his tongue over.
"You can't MAKE me do anything, Tuff. You wanted me to stop being a little bitch in front of everyone, right? Well, fine. I'll do what -I- want for a change. I'm coming to see you." He sat up and smirked, satisfied there was nothing the blonde could do to talk him out of it. And for a moment, Tuffnut simply sat and growled at him.
"Hiccup, I've already told you there is nothing here between us. What part of MISTAKE do you not understand?" He bent his head, looming close enough to almost press his forehead against Hiccup's own. The brunette actually had the nerve to continue smiling at him, though he did see what he thought was a beginning glimmer of doubt in those gem cut eyes of his.
"I think about you every second of everyday, Hicca..." Tuffnut blinked as the little viking used his own words against him. Surprise caught him by the hair and wrenched as hard as it could, taking the air from his lungs. Hiccup seemed to notice the change. "You thought I wasn't listening? I heard everything you said, I just took it as a figment of my imagination till I sat down and pieced it together the other day." He shrugged and sat back, pulling away from the shadow of Tuffnut's suddenly confused stare. Suddenly he was at a loss for words.
"I don't know why you seem to want to keep yourself away from me, Tuff. I don't know what I did to you that was so wrong." He hunched over again, leaning over the side of the bed and looking into his hands with a suddenly forlorn expression. "I just know that I'm not going to quit doing "stupid things". I can't help it." He turned to face him again, giving one of those lightly awkward smiles that sunk parentheses of dimples into his freckled cheeks. "I lo-"
Tuffnut lept forward, tackling him to his back on the bed and slamming his arm across his chest, pinning the gasping little brunette beneath his sudden weight. "Don't say it, Hicca." The boy stilled when the name registered, blinking into Tuffnut's suddenly grinning eyes, letting a slow and unsure smile hopefully begin to bleed into his own. Tuffnut dropped his head, pushing Hiccup's chin back before closing his teeth over the curve of his throat and shoulder, nipping softly. Hiccup let out a quiet breath, allowing Tuffnut to close his eyes with a smile before repeating the motion.
"You can't decide that you love me with everything that's happened between us. I won't let you." He lifted his head, peering down at the protests already bubbling up behind Hiccup's lips. He bent forward, pressing there foreheads together, his hair falling to either side of them, shielding their faces. "But, IF you decide to sneak up here in the next two weeks..." He paused for effect, grinning when the boy started to squirm beneath him. "You can decide if you love me or not then." He waited only long enough for Hiccup to open his mouth, waited only long enough for him to take in a breath to respond, before he locked their mouths together.
His tongue swept past the barrier of his teeth, pushing against his own as he attempted to invade every inch of heat the boy was willing to give him. Hiccup moaned, legs shifting anxiously against the side of the mattress, one hand managing to break free of his pin long enough to wrap around his back and fist in his hair, jerking him even closer. Tuffnut grinned, unable to stop himself from letting the boy take control, unable to stop himself from letting him steal every breath he had to offer.
"Hiccup! Your daddy sent Astrid after you!" Ruffnut's call snapped his eyes open, sending his a tremor of fear down his spine before he went rigid beneath Tuffnut's warmth. For a second there was nothing else, for a second he wondered if he had imagined it. "Hiccup!" Ruffnut didn't sound happy, nor did she sound imaginary.